Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 9 Mar 2001 12:28:18 -0500 (EST) | From | Alexander Viro <> | Subject | Re: 2.4.2-ac calls FS truncate w/o BKL |
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On Fri, 9 Mar 2001, Chris Mason wrote:
> > The added vmtruncate calls in the ac series trigger calls to the FS > truncate without the BKL held. Easy enough to fix on the reiserfs side, > but if other filesystems care we might want to change vmtruncate to grab > the lock before calling truncate (and update the Locking doc ;-)
Grr... Thanks for spotting - it's my fault. No, I don't think that we should move BKL into filesystems right now. Should move it into vmtruncate(), though...
Alan, could you put lock_kernel()/unlock_kernel() around the call of ->truncate() in vmtruncate()? Thanks, Al
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